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Body Size, Personality and Neurosis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Linford Rees
Linford Rees*
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Wales and Monmouthshire
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From time immemorial man has tended to classify his fellow beings into physical types associated with specific disease susceptibilities or characteristic mental or moral qualities. The ancient Hindus described three types of human physique likened to the elephant, the bull and the deer. Hippocrates formulated a dichotomy in build with a narrow type, the habitus phthisicus as one extreme and a broad type, the habitus apoplecticus, as the other.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 96 , Issue 402 , January 1950 , pp. 168 - 180
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1950 

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